文弱書生

Chinese

		gentle and refined but weak and frail	scholar; intellectual; pedantic scholar
trad. (文弱書生)		文弱	書生
simp. (文弱书生)		文弱	书生

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wénruòshūshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄖㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄨ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ joek⁶ syu¹ sang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wénruòshūshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄖㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄨ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúnruòshusheng
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-jo⁴-shu¹-shêng¹
    • Yale: wén-rwò-shū-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenruohshusheng
    • Palladius: вэньжошушэн (vɛnʹžošušɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ ʐu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴ joek⁶ syu¹ sang¹
    • Yale: màhn yeuhk syū sāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ joek⁹ sy¹ sang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ yêg⁶ xu¹ seng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ jœːk̚² syː⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

Idiom

文弱書生

1. scholar or intellectual who is gentle and frail